April is (US) National Poetry Month. It’s been a while since I celebrated the month here at Kinna Reads and frankly, I miss it. There is no theme to this year’s celebration. I might, unch...
https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/03/from-winnie-by-gwendolyn-brooks/
I’m finally posting a poem by Koleka Putuma and it’s her birthday today! I’ve carried Koleka’s Collective Amnesia in my bag for weeks; everyday I’ll thumb through and read the poems b...
https://kinnareads.com/2018/03/22/black-joy-by-koleka-putuma/
Because yesterday, 04/25/17, Dionne Brand and Claudia Rankine were in conversation at The Barnard Center for Research on Women (@bcrwtweets), and I know that I missed out on something great. "My ...
(April is #PoetryMonth) Safia Elhillo is a Sudanese-American poet. She is a recipient of the 2015 Brunel University African Poetry Prize. Her debut collection is The January Children (Universi...
https://kinnareads.com/2017/04/20/self-portrait-with-no-flag-by-safia-elhillo/
(April is #PoetryMonth) “What do we want from each other after we have told our stories?” asks Audre Lorde. More freedom? More justice? More love? More inclusion, better systems, an end to...
https://kinnareads.com/2017/04/18/there-are-no-honest-poems-about-dead-women-by-audre-lorde/
April is here and so is (US) National Poetry Month. Eli Tetteh launched his chapbook, Ellipses, in Accra earlier this month. I’m so taken by his poetry. I kick off #PoetryMonth here with “I...
https://kinnareads.com/2017/04/11/in-time-of-war-by-eli-tetteh/
Women, Happy International Women’s Day! The struggle for Freedom and Justice still continues. (My favorite symbol of Ghana remains our flag, created by the genius bae Theodosia Okoh. My secon...
https://kinnareads.com/2017/03/08/for-internationalwomensday-on-reading-jackie-kay-by-ama-ata-aidoo/
A new poem! There are stories My stomach walls are flooded with tears I am full starved of love, laughter and sex There is nothing to be said after Story story story Sorry I mean it For my storie...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/11/18/there-are-stories-by-nana-nyarko-boateng/
Audre Lorde died on this day 23 years ago. Power The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wound...
Micere Mugo is a Kenyan scholar, playwright, activist and is ‘Auntie Micere’ to me. I Want You to Know I want you to know how carefully I watered the tender shoots you planted in my little ga...
https://kinnareads.com/2015/10/28/i-want-you-to-know-by-micere-githae-mugo/